Example sentences of "and [adj] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And that would mean … if no light came from it , it would look — black . ’ |
| 32 | If we do so we may deny our pain , it would be to pretend that all is well , and that would mean to deny the biblical faith . |
| 33 | And that would mean having to borrow someone else 's name , and that might be embarrassing . |
| 34 | And that would mean getting wet again ; her short black taffeta dress , still damp from the previous climb , would be ruined for sure . |
| 35 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 36 | And that would last six to eight weeks ladies . |
| 37 | They also called on the churches to teach their leaders and congregations to use alternative models of communication that are accessible to most people and that would enable communicators to get their message across most effectively . |
| 38 | No erm they are then authorised and issued with an authorisation card following the successful completion of the course to carry a firearm on police duties if required er , the authorisation is issued by either the Chief Constable or er his deputy and that would enable the officer if required to go an armoury at one of the police stations and produce his card and be issued with a weapon if necessary . |
| 39 | Here are some further areas in which you may well have experience and that would stand you in good stead with a prospective employer . |
| 40 | ‘ He can only drive a specially-adapted car and that would stand out like a sore thumb if he was moving about doing something related to terrorism ’ , Mrs Drumgoole said . |
| 41 | Right and it 'd be a hundred and eighty degrees all the way round and that would represent one pound eighty if three hun three pound sixty was all the way round . |
| 42 | And that would depend , in turn , on whether other men kept their word to a dead emperor . |
| 43 | ‘ And that would go against the grain , would n't it … to do anything without working out the odds first ? ’ |
| 44 | The costs involved would be between £3,000-£6,000 and that would cover relaying the surface , repairing the fencing and the refurbishment of the pavilion . |
| 45 | The costs involved would be between £3,000–£6,000 and that would cover relaying the surface , repairing the fencing and the refurbishment of the pavilion . |
| 46 | M My Lords , first of all the there are a number of reports out now very erm good reports that do encourage primary schools to look and exploit the specialisms of the teachers on their staff and that would cover of course people who have a specialism in teaching this subject and it is also true , sadly in the case of some schools who wo n't allow er people who are specialists in the subject and can speak about it with authority for example er local vicars and priests and , and faith healers who can come in help in a school , but where those schools do ex exploit the expertise in the community , the school is enriched by that . |
| 47 | There was nothing she could do about that , but she could give the ring back and that would show what she thought of him ! |
| 48 | Nineteen seventy seven 's summer was a total washout and that would tend to push people perhaps more towards guaranteed sunshine in the Mediterranean . |
| 49 | I told Richard that , if he wanted to become a professional actor , he first had to change both the quality of his voice and his speech , and that would involve hard and tiresome work . |
| 50 | And that would 've been a little unwieldy , would n't it ? |
| 51 | Cos say I was looking for angles and that would 've just been fifty up here would n't it . |
| 52 | no good it 's three times too much so he must have started off with X cubed over three and that would 've given us one third of three X squared |
| 53 | Erm and that would alter the book but nevertheless we would want to say , what I did was to alter the book . |
| 54 | And that would sit quite well with our quality systems . |
| 55 | It 's important to restore the weirs otherwise the river would be a trickle and that would affect tourism and wildlife . |
| 56 | A man when he issued say two , two tuppeny tickets , there were two tuppeny tickets but he pushed a little lever and issued two tuppeny tickets which came out almost together , that was a fourpenny fare and that would record once |
| 57 | He scouts Chapman 's explanation on the grounds that aerodynamic forces change the trajectory of the ball from that of a perfect parabola and that would ruin the results of calculation based on the tangent . |
| 58 | Palace courtiers often aligned themselves with one or other marriage partner and that would stir up trouble between them . |
| 59 | and at ten to twelve my grandfather would take out the bucket with the old ashes and bury it in a garden , and that would burying the old year |
| 60 | You 'd go in and have to queue up , wait for the chance to get the frying pan to put bacon and egg in it , and your hands so cold you could hardly hold it , and that would take up a quarter of an hour . |